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Dint vs Bint - What's the difference?

dint | bint |

As nouns the difference between dint and bint

is that dint is (label) a blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight while bint is (british|pejorative) a woman, a girl.

As a verb dint

is to dent.

As a contraction dint

is .

dint

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dint, dent, . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

  • (label) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
  • *, I.i:
  • *:Much daunted with that dint , her sence was dazd.
  • * 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xxxi:
  • *:Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint , or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
  • Force, power; especially in (by dint of).
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity.
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
  • The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]
  • :(Dryden)
    • Derived terms
    * by dint of

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dent
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Jeffery Farnol, title=Beltane The Smith, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God! }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, author=W. Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Star-Chamber, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. }}

    Etymology 2

    Contraction

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    bint

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, pejorative) A woman, a girl.
    • Tell that bint to get herself in here now!
    Don't you remember the Crimbo din-din we had with the grotty Scots bint ?
  • * Monty Python's Flying Circus
    • If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

    Synonyms

    * See also ----